"Just now, thank you for standing up and helping me." Xu Jingxi said to Su Rui.
At a time of grievance, it's really good to have someone willing to defend themselves.
If it hadn't been for Su Rui just now, Xu Huanxi would definitely have made a few more cruel words.
Therefore, Xu Jingxi was very moved in her heart.
And Xu Xinlan also nodded secretly.
Su Rui's performance just now is undoubtedly a quite qualified boyfriend. Jingxi needs a responsible man around her.
"She really went too far." Su Rui narrowed his eyes. "That's why I'm in a good temper now. If I put it in the past, she would have to be disfigured today."
Disguising?
After hearing Su Rui's words, Xu Jingxi couldn't help laughing.
Xu Xinlan also laughed, and the unhappiness just now dissipated with Su Rui's words.
In fact, from Su Rui's point of view, Xu Huanxi also has his own position. However, this girl is really too unpleasant to talk about. Fortunately, she realized that it was wrong to leave first, otherwise, Su Rui would really teach her a hard lesson.
After all, once our Su Da handsome guy gets angry, he will die no matter whether he is human or beast.
"Will you return to our old house tonight?" Xu Xinlan asked.
"OK." Xu Jingxi nodded, then hesitated: "it's just that no one has lived in my room for so long, and I don't know how much dust it has to fall."
"Don't worry, it's all cleaned." Xu Xinlan smiled, "and even if you don't come back often, I often let people maintain the environment of your room."
"Thank you, aunt LAN." Xu Jingxi is a little moved. There are not many people in this family still care about her, and Xu Xinlan is always an exception.
Xu Xinlan said here and smiled, "don't see the outsiders with me. By the way, do you want to live in the same room with Su Rui?"
Xu Jingxi's pretty face suddenly turned red. Unexpectedly, Su Rui took the initiative to say, "forget it, I'm not married yet. Living together doesn't have a good impact."
"I don't see how conservative you are." Xu Xinlan was a little unbelievable, and then said with a smile, "however, from this point, we can see that Su Rui is a very reliable person. Jingxi, you are always right to find him."
Su Rui grinned: "thank you, aunt LAN."
Returning to the Xu family's old house, at this time, there was no one living in the big yard, and everyone had their own real estate. Xu Jingxi looked at the big yard, thinking of a group of brothers and sisters who put aside the chopping board in the yard and practiced knife work from morning to night when he was a child, he couldn't help but feel a little trance.
Those pictures have finally become the past and will never come back.
Give up the tradition, and if it goes on like this, the Xu family will always wait until the day of decline.
"The kitchen is big." Su Rui strolled around the yard and walked into the kitchen. He found that there were ten stoves built inside, which looked quite spectacular.
"Yes, my father's generation used to cook here, but then it was our turn, and their apprentices also graduated from here." Xu Jingxi said with a wry smile, and a disappointed look appeared in her eyes.
"Alas, it's all in the past." She shook her head.
There are still two servants and several middle-aged relatives left in the old house. Although now the descendants have their own properties, even villas, and most of them have moved out, the Xu family still comes here in accordance with the usual practice during the Mid Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Spring Festival.
Second Uncle Xu Xinglong will also return here from time to time to live for a few days.
And, most importantly, there are two plaques hanging in the main hall of the old house.
This is the honor of the Xu family.
Kitchen king.
Su Rui stood in the main hall, looking at the two plaques and meditating silently.
"On the left is the piece given by Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty. It was once taken to Nanyang, and then to Europe. It was brought back before the founding of the people's Republic of China. It was also considered to have traveled across the sea several times." Xu Jingxi said, "grandpa once said that people in the Xu family can lose their lives, but they must not lose these two plaques."
Su Rui understood this idea, and nodded: "in fact, the Xu family is already a legend of China, but if this legend is to continue, we must not lose the tradition, let alone be stained with too much utilitarian color."
"I understand, my father also saw through this, so he always wanted to stop the second uncle." Xu Jingxi said silently.
Xu Jingxi made a brief introduction to several relatives who still lived in the old house. Both sides were indifferent.
Su Rui could feel that the welcome of these relatives to Xu Jingxi was only superficial.
After all, Xu Xinglong, the second uncle of the family, is in power now, and Xu Xingmin, the eldest, has been missing for nearly three years. Xu Jingxi has also become an insignificant figure. Although she still has the right to inherit the number one position in the younger generation, Xu Xinglong can make Xu Jingxi lose these things with a little means.
With the wrist of the second uncle of the Xu family, it's not difficult to do this, it's just a matter of when he wants to do it.
But once Xu Xinglong tears off his mask, Xu Jingxi will have no good life at all, and this old Xu family will have nothing to do with her.
Because of the problem of standing in line, these relatives dare not be too close to Xu Jingxi, for fear that the second uncle will suppress and retaliate, which is understandable.
Su Rui didn't say much to them. Even when these people were having dinner, they just greeted them symbolically, which was too perfunctory.
Sitting in her former bedroom, Xu Jingxi kept silent, and her mood was obviously not very good.
"It's not a wise decision to come back, but avoiding can't solve the problem." Su Rui looked at the decoration in the room and said faintly, "what we should face is still to face."
Xu Jingxi nodded and smiled bitterly, "I know it will be this scene when I come back. I think I'm ready mentally, but once I really meet it, I'll find myself more sad than I imagined."
Su Rui sat down beside her: "I once encountered something more sad than you thought. At that time, my only goal was to live. At least you are much better than me now."
After a pause, he added, "my comfort may not be appropriate, but it may have some effect. After all, it is human nature to compare misery."
Hearing Su Rui's words, Xu Jingxi shook her head with a wry smile, "you are really comforting."
"Don't worry, since I promised to come back with you, I won't let them bully you." Su Rui said.
Xu Jingxi turned her face, and her large and beautiful eyes twinkled with bright light. She stared into Su Rui's eyes and said seriously, "Su Rui, thank you."
"You're welcome. I'm counting on you to help me sneak into Emei." Su Rui smiled.
He didn't want others to owe him a debt of gratitude, so he said so.
And Xu Jingxi obviously understood. She turned her head, looked at the ground in front of her, and said, "in fact, you are really a good man."
This sentence contains many meanings, but it is definitely not a good card for Su Rui.
"I can't talk about a good man, but..." Su Rui stabbed the young master Bai, "at least it's better than Bai Qinchuan."
Xu Jingxi laughed again, "he's not bad either."
"Too utilitarian." Su Rui said faintly.
This evaluation is obviously aimed at Bai Qinchuan.
Moreover, Su Rui had put away his smile when he said this sentence.
Xu Jingxi turned to Su Rui again, hesitated for a moment, and still didn't say anything.
Su Rui looked at her: "what do you want to say? You don't want to defend Comrade Bai Qinchuan?"
"No." Seeing Su Rui, Xu Jingxi asked, "Qin Chuan and I are also friends. I know him."
Su Rui narrowed his eyes and laughed, "you know him, so is he good, bad, or average?"
Su Rui can hear that Xu Jingxi's words have several meanings. This is not simply to believe that Bai Qinchuan is a good man, let alone to say good words for him.
Xu Jingxi didn't answer Su Rui's question head-on, but said, "I hope you won't be too fierce when you fight head-on with Qin Chuan in the future, after all..."
After all, you are all my friends.
Xu Jingxi didn't say the last half sentence, and her eyes also showed a touch of melancholy and gloom.
In fact, when Su Rui agreed to Xu Jingxi's request of "one for one", Xu Jingxi had taken this young man as his friend from the bottom of his heart. After all, although they help each other, Su Rui is obviously much more difficult to help himself.
Therefore, this matter is a loss for Su Rui, and Xu Jingxi has learned that Su Rui has done many things in the past, which seems silly, but in Xu Jingxi's view, Su Rui's behavior represents a wordless persistence.
Su Rui didn't investigate the meaning of Xu Jingxi's last half sentence, but smiled and said, "why do you suddenly say this? It seems that I don't need any positive conflict with Bai Qinchuan now."
"Women's intuition." Xu Jingxi pulled her hair, as if she remembered something, and said, "it's getting late. Let me cook a bowl of noodles for you. It's barely midnight snack."
"As soon as I'm full, I won't eat supper." Su Rui said with a smile.
"But... I'm always very interested in noodles. If we can, we can have a bowl of noodles tomorrow morning." Su Rui also has great expectations for the American cook to cook noodles by hand.
"OK." Xu Jingxi smiled and said, "it's getting late. Let's have a rest early."
"OK, wash and sleep." Su Rui said and stood up.
At this time, the roar of the car suddenly came from the door, and then the sharp sound of the sudden brake rang out.
Su Rui narrowed his eyes. Even if he didn't look, he could tell what the car was from the sound: "it seems that the annoying uninvited guest is coming again."
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PS: the second one is on!